CHELSEA PHILLIPS

Hi from Boston/Cambridge-- I'm on Fellowship this month at the Harvard Theatre Collection at the Houghton Library--a large and incredibly...

Hi everyone--it's been a while. I haven't written in three weeks, here and--to a lesser extent--on the bulk of the book. I've instead...

I have good news and bad news this week. Bad news is that I’ve written nothing this week. The end of the semester is a solid wall of...

It's been two weeks since I last gave an update. I've been trying to stay on track, but am losing the battle in the face of the end of...

I've been thinking about systems a lot recently. For much of the semester, as tenure looms and I navigate that particular system (within...

This week, I had three big tasks: 1) finish revisions on the DJ chapter, 2) receive feedback on a full draft of my new "Backstage"...

Hi, all! I've got a piece in the newest issue of Theatre Survey (60.2) about the infamous rival productions of Romeo and Juliet in the...

Welp. For the first time since I started this epic quest, I'm not quite finished with my goals for the week. I did round out my Backstage...

This week, my goals were to complete a draft of part one of my Backstage chapter (Two), to compile primary source material on the actress...

Hello, dear readers. I'm one week in to The Plan, which you can get a glimpse of here. For the next 14-make-that-13 weeks, I'll be...

This week I was in Denver at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference. It’s one of my...

I recently did a posting for the Folger's Collation blog about some of the material I worked with during my short-term Fellowship earlier...

Returning to the Folger was an excellent choice. I didn't complete everything on my list, but I found something more valuable:...

It's spring break, and I'm about to head back to the Folger for a few days for some dedicated writing time. In the evenings, I'll also be...

Those of you who have read some earlier posts will know that part of the reason I started doing this is because I want to become more at...

As anticipated, I had a bananas week. My plan to lessen my expectations of the book work I was going to accomplish in order to make space...

I read an interesting thread on Twitter earlier about whether or not academics are working on the weekends. Lots of respondents made...

It's been a loooong week. Lots of good things, but I didn't balance my time as well as I'd like, and it's only going to get more...

This week I was finishing up a draft of a chapter on Sarah Siddons to send to my dear friend and editor. I made it (hooray), but as I...

School started this week. I spent the first two weeks of 2019 building a writing habit that (I hoped) would withstand the overwhelming...